I don't know if I would say that. Someone might mention Matthew 25 and all that feeding of the hungry, giving drink to the thirsty and clothing the naked being given a value by Jesus.
As a complete aside related to this: The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.
This is an interesting line: "The beasts of the field and the birds of the air have their holes and their hiding places; but the men who fight and die for Italy enjoy only the light and the air." It's a line from a pretty famous speech from 133 BC.
Absolutely! Many conservatives seem to forget this. (On another thread, someone once posted that Jesus meant only what used to be called "the deserving poor"!) I've always been of the view that it is at least as important for us to give as for the poor to receive.
I have known individual liberals (as well as individual conservatives) who take it seriously, but many of those hold actual poor people in utter contempt, which I don't think is quite what Christ had in mind.
Even to the extent that liberals purport to care about the poor and to the extent that they are sincere, well, Chesterton has a passage (I don't recall where; it may come to me) about breaking the virtues apart: they lose their proper identity in separation and go wild, lose their "virtue" as it were.